You can now copy text from images on Windows

PowerToys from Microsoft has a new utility that allows you to copy text from an image. When someone sends you a picture of a business card or a screenshot of your bank account details, you can use PowerToys to quickly copy it to Windows. of The new utility is called Text Extractor, PowerToys 0.62 version updateYou can download the latest version of PowerToys from GitHub. oOnce installed, open PowerToys and click on it. text extractor Click.

How to use the text extraction tool in Windows

In the right pane of PowerToys, you will see Text Extractor’s keyboard shortcuts.By default, this shortcut is Windows key + Shift + TThe next time you come across text in an image, or if you’re on a website that blocks copy and paste, use the keyboard shortcut to activate Text Extractor and cLick and drag text to copy. You can also press and hold shift Dragging the original selection to other parts of the screen can help if there are slight errors during the selection. Once the text is copied, open an app where you can type the text and press Ctrl + V Paste it there.

You can also customize Text Extractor if you don’t like the default keyboard shortcuts. Go to PowerToys and in the left pane[テキスト エクストラクタ]then click setting Click.Halick pencil icon next to Activation shortcutIn the new window press the key combination you want to bind to the Text Extractor. click keep, You are done. Note that this keyboard shortcut must start with the Windows, Ctrl, or Alt key.

Try other new PowerToys utilities

PowerToys v0.62 also has some other useful tools. Quick Accent lets you quickly type accented characters. You can also use the screen ruler to measure the number of pixels in any part of your screen.

Quick accents must be manually enabled via PowerToys. Once you’ve done this, you can press and hold any letter on your keyboard and immediately press the left and right arrow keys. A toolbar appears with all the accented characters associated with that character. those who need it.

screen ruler too user friendly. After updating PowerToys to v0.62, Windows + Shift + M launch it. choose boundary Click the tool, then click and drag the area you want to measure.The number of pixels in this area is screen.Long press to stay on screen shift while clicking and dragging.